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The Cuban state awarded him the Medal of National Culture and the Alejo-Carpentier Medal for his outstanding artistic career.. In addition to a variety of other Cuban awards, he was awarded the UNESCO Prize for the Promotion of the Fine Arts in Paris, France in 1996, [11] as well as the New Delhi Triennial Prize for Contemporary Art in 1978 and the Armando Reverón International Drawing Prize ...
While looking at the art of the 1980s we see a trend in the use of the shape of Cuba itself as inspiration for art. One-piece, Immediately Geographic by artist Florencio Gelabert Soto, is a sculpture in the shape of Cuba but is broken into many pieces. One interpretation could reflect the still unequal treatment towards artists, and the ...
Tomás Sánchez (born May 22, 1948, in Aguada de Pasajeros, Cienfuegos, Cuba) is a Cuban painter and engraver, known for his landscapes. Sánchez is the most expensive living Cuban painter. Sánchez is the most expensive living Cuban painter.
One version of the proportions used in modern figure drawing is: [4] An average person is generally 7-and-a-half heads tall (including the head). An ideal figure, used when aiming for an impression of nobility or grace, is drawn at 8 heads tall. A heroic figure, used in the depiction of gods and superheroes, is eight-and-a-half heads tall. Most ...
From the mid-1960s to 2010, much of his work includes paintings and drawings that portray spirits and Orisha saints through the use of a wide array of colors and smooth, flowing shapes. The primary theme in his art is his recognition that African religion and African culture have shaped Cuban national identity and culture.
Cesar Santos (born July 10, 1982) is a contemporary Cuban-American artist and portrait painter. He is better known for his body of work "Syncretism", a term he uses to describe paintings where he presents two or more art tendencies in aesthetic balance. He has completed numerous commissions and his work is held in private as well as public ...
a group that established the style of ‘Concretism’ or ‘Concrete’ art in 1950s Cuba and fashioned a whole new, unique language of abstraction." [ 8 ] Soldevilla's take on geometric abstraction played an important role in the development of concretismo in Cuba as well as in the international scene.
List of Cuban artists (in alphabetical order by last name) includes artists of various genres, who are notable and are either born in Cuba, of Cuban descent or who produced works that are primarily about Cuba.